A photo of my typewriter, a Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe with a sheet of A4 paper in it, on which I have manually typed the output of fastfetch and ping. The typewriter is apparently running Arch Linux with linux-hardened. My shell is sh. It has no CPU, no GPU, and zero bytes of RAM. The ping command was going to 9.9.9.9. All packets were returned with decent speed.
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh damn, I miss ascii text art from the mid 90s!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Not certain of whether you're thinking specifically of plain ASCII art or also ANSI art (which was specifically around that time and made use of PC drawing characters and ANSI escape sequences), but there's a software package called ansilove that will render ANSI art, as well as some related text art formats, into an image for viewing.

    https://www.ansilove.org/

    It's packaged in Debian Trixie.

    https://16colo.rs/ is a gallery of ANSI art. A lot of the thumbnails are in grayscale, but tap on them and they'll open up and have a lot of colorful artwork.

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